behoove

Speech parts

1. behoove - Noun

2. behoove - Verb

Meaning

To be necessary for; to be fit for; to be meet for, with respect to necessity, duty, or convenience; -- mostly used impersonally.

To be necessary, fit, or suitable; to befit; to belong as due.

Advantage; behoof.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

behove become need fall suit becoming advantage agreement match proper appropriate fit suitable responsibility agree
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Antonyms

unbecoming route incorrect useless inappropriate unacceptable
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Hypernyms

be

Derivatives

behooved behooving

Examples

I am convinced that everything has come down to us from the banks of the Ganges, astronomy, astrology, metempsychosis, etc. It does not behoove us, who were only savages and barbarians when these Indians and Chinese peoples were civilized and learned, to dispute their antiquity. Voltaire

It would behoove the world to become used to this fact: that without a just solution to the Palestine tragedy, there can be no stable peace in the Middle East. King Hussein

There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, it doesn't behoove any of us to speak evil of the rest of us. Edgar Cayce

It would behoove us to groove. Tony Vigorito

If a woman decides she likes me, it would behoove her to take into consideration that my art has had a strong influence on the type of person I am. Wesley Snipes

It behooves us to reflect on this matter Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

behoof behoofful behoovable behooveful behoovingly behope